Agentic AI vs. generative AI: Key differences and use cases

When people talk about AI, they often toss wildly different tools into the same bucket—like putting a blender and an AI personal assistant app in the same category just because they both have buttons. That lumping obscures something important: generative AI creates things (ideas, drafts, images, emails), while agentic AI carries out things (sending those emails, following up on them, updating the systems they touch). Here’s how to tell the difference between agentic AI and generative AI, when t